Re: DLINK Eth card

[Leon Jackson <ljackson@davesworld.net>]

Realtek chipset is basic junk
the cards that have them you can usually purchase for $20 or less, which is
good because you may have to go through 3 or 4 before you get one that will
function. A company that i currently work for (for only 3 more days) and
shall remain nameless, keeps buying these things despite our objections.
And they are regularly replaced until we get one that will function at
100mb. this problem occurs with Linux and Win9x,NT,etc.. so i know it's not
a driver issue.
do you self a favor and stay away from Realtek if you can.

Leon

At 08:17 AM 7/18/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Danny Sauer said:
>> BTW, the RTL-8139 cards don't seem to be terribly nice.  I used them when
>> I first converted to 100Mb switched in my apt.  They were the source of
>> several instability problems under moderate to high network loads.  They're
>> cheap initially, but more expensive when you have the hassle of crashes
>> (good heavens) and buying a new *good* NIC to replace it...
>
>I bought one somewhat accidentally a few weeks ago thinking it was a
>tulip-based card.  I've only used it for a few minutes at a time since
>then, so I haven't seen any problems.  Still, for a few bucks more you
>can get a tulip (clone) card that won't have any of these issues, so
>these RTL-8139 cards probably aren't worth messing with.  (The Netgear
>cards that Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, etc. carry are tulip
>clones.  They work great.)
>
>BTW, isn't the RTL-8139 just an "improved" version of the 8029 chips
>used in the PCI NE2k clones?  If so, it's no wonder it sucks.  :-)
>
>Steve
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